Word: collar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somerville is a "highly ethnic community of mostly blue collar workers in which neighborhoods are very important," Stephen Mackey says. Only a small percentage of the city's high school graduating class goes on to college, he adds...
...million could be saved annually if the Pentagon stopped paying civilian blue-collar employees more than what comparable non-Government workers earn in the same community. Another by Congress's General Accounting Office: a gain of $300 million if the military would simplify the methods by which it protects its telephone conversations from eavesdroppers...
...hamburgers and cleared away dirty dishes. Lavin, better known as Alice when she waits on prime-time television tables at Mel's Diner, was in town to accept an award: the National Commission on Working Women found her the TV character to whom real-life blue-and pink-collar working women most relate. Does Lavin relate back? "I'm on my feet too all day, every day," she says of her shooting schedule. "We're really into Supp-hose...
...says the group includes blue-collar workers, environmentalists, citizens concerned with the high cost of energy, disgruntled shareholders, and anti-nuke people spread out across the six states in which the American Electric Power Company operates power plants. The coalition is "a broad based group with a common concern for the direction of the utility's development," Austin adds...
...intended as a devastating satire of the U.S. legal system-a fine idea in principle. But by inflating their target to ridiculous proportions and then firing at it with cannons, the screenwriters have lost their subject completely. The true and complex inequities of American jurisprudence remain untouched; the white-collar scandals that have actually afflicted contemporary Baltimore are never even mentioned. This film would have us believe that the courts would be first-rate if only a few bad guys (played by John Forsythe and Jack Warden) were removed from the bench. Such simple-minded solutions only...